Easy to Make Christmas Gifts

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Christmas gift giving can leave us pulling out our hair trying to figure out just the perfect gift for our family and friends. We want to go homemade because that’s always more special, but we get overwhelmed with the amount of gifts we have to make and the time it will take to make them.

It doesn’t have to be that way!

Here are five crafty gift ideas you and your children can make for adult family members on our Christmas list. Some, like ornaments, can be given early and enjoyed the whole season and every Christmas season to come. Others can wait till Christmas morning.

10 Minutes is all it takes!

No-Sew Fleece Scarf

If your kid can tie a knot he’s big enough to help make this scarf. No sewing of any kind! Scarves make wonderful gifts because they keep they remind the recipient of your love every time they drape the soft warm gift over their shoulders.

Bubble Magnets

Make up a big batch and gift in groups of five or so!

A popular craft idea is cute refrigerator magnets. Here you have a clever idea using clear glass rounds of glass, cut out pictures and magnets. Throw in some modpodge, scissors and some creativity and you have Christmas gifts you and your child will be happy to give.

Homemade Lip Balm

Just 4 ingredients!!

Winter is so hard on your lips and nothing soothes like some natural oils and beeswax. These lip balms are easy to make and the kids can help!

Handmade Christmas: Hand Print Ornaments

Homemade Hand print Ornaments will be a favorite with grandparents everywhere.

This homemade Christmas ornament is easy to make out of homemade dough and baked a short time in the oven. On the ornament is a hand print or footprint from your child. These will be welcome gifts and will be enjoyed again and again every Christmas.

These ideas work so well because children can be involved in creating little works of art for family and friends and we know children excel at creating artwork.

What is the favorite Christmas gift you’ve ever received? Have you ever made your own gift for someone special? We’d love to hear about your experiences as we can all learn from each other.

About Grandma Prepares

Listening to elders who lived during the Great Depression gave me the lifelong passion to prepare for lean times during good times. Gardening, canning and preserving foods, restoring old barns into homes, geology and sailing are some of my interests. I am a Christian having placed my faith in Jesus Christ. I am a grandmother to five children and mother to one extraordinarily wonderful daughter.

Comments

What a great and cool idea this is the way by we can make gifts for Christmas very easily also they will precious as we made it by own I definitely make them and give it to my friends and expecting their cute words for this.